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Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
January 16, 2011 to July 3, 2011 – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston "Modernist Photography 1910–1950" features approximately 40 American modernist photographs representing highlights from the Museum's own collection as well as The Lane Collection. Complementing the w… Organized by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Type: exhibition
January 29, 2011 to November 20, 2011 – Weston Park Museum Drawing on the expertise of Sheffield Hallam University's renowned Centre for Sports Engineering Research, Sports Lab will explore the genetic advantages of top sportsmen and women and the remarkabl… Organized by Sports Lab/Weston Park Museum | Type: exhibition
February 8, 2011 to July 3, 2011 – The Getty Center Ranging from 19th-century works to contemporary pieces, the exhibition includes prints by both recognized and lesser-known artists. Among the photographers whose work is on view are Robert Adams, Eug… Organized by The Getty Center | Type: exhibiition
February 9, 2011 at 6pm to July 30, 2011 at 7pm – National Army Museum The exhibition highlights the fascinating and changing roles of soldiers' partners from 19th-century 'Women of the Regiment' who worked as cooks and laundresses to modern Army families, where both p… Organized by National Army Museum | Type: exhibition
February 16, 2011 to July 3, 2011 – Museum of the Shenandoah Valley Hugh Morrison Jr. (1871–1950) photographed the people and places of Shenandoah County, Virginia, from the late 1890s through 1950. It was an era of dramatic change in our country, and Hugh Morrison p… Organized by Museum of the Shenandoah Valley | Type: exhibition
February 18, 2011 to September 4, 2011 – Museum of London An amazing collection of 'London Street Photography', spanning from 1860 to present day, is on display at The Museum of London. A great insight into street photography as well as the changes that ha… Organized by Museum of London | Type: exhibition
February 18, 2011 to September 4, 2011 – Museum of London This major new exhibition at the Museum of London showcases an extraordinary collection of London street photography with over 200 candid images of everyday life in the street. From sepia-toned scene… Organized by Museum of London | Type: exhibition
February 19, 2011 at 6pm to December 18, 2011 at 7pm – Logomo Fantastic everyday life and everyday fantasy blend in Alice in Wonderland, a major international exhibition of contemporary photographic art in Turku, the European Capital of Culture 2011, designed a… Organized by Elina Heikka | Type: exhibition
March 2, 2011 to September 12, 2011 – Getty Villa This exhibition f eatures rare, early daguerreotypes, salted-paper prints, and albumen silver prints, created between the 1840s and 1900s by the leading photographers of the time, including Felice Be… Organized by Getty Museum | Type: exhibition
March 5, 2011 to August 21, 2011 – Art Gallery of Ontario This exhibition features for the first time the work of a completely unknown French photographer and his photographs of French regional life at the turn of the 20th century. The group of 1,702 gelati… Organized by Art Gallery of Ontario | Type: exhibition
March 22, 2011 to August 6, 2011 – UCR/California Museum of Photography Not every subject in these portraits is looking directly at the photographer, but all are aware that the camera is looking at them. In that sense, all are formal portraits, as opposed to candid ones… Organized by UCR/California Museum of Photography | Type: exhibition
March 31, 2011 to August 15, 2011 – Statoil Office It is a great pleasure and honour for us to present such a unique collection of artists that have shaped the development of photography as an art form, says Jens R Jenssen, senior vice president of h… Organized by Karin Hall, Lars Hall and Arnt N Fredheim, Statoil art programm | Type: exhibition
April 1, 2011 to September 4, 2011 – Pacific Asia Museum This exhibition will feature more than 70 images in 2 rotations selected for both their striking imagery and for what they reveal about the dynamism of India in this era. Through the Colonial Lens lo… Organized by Pacific Asia Museum | Type: exhibition
April 4, 2011 to October 2, 2011 – Museum für Asiatische Kunst - (Museum of Asian Art) This veritable Shangri-La at the foot of the Himalayas, with its favourable climate and picturesque landscape, has captivated people on their travels around India ever since the Great Moguls made the… Organized by Museum für Asiatische Kunst - (Museum of Asian Art) | Type: exhibition
April 4, 2011 to June 30, 2011 – Chester History and Heritage This display explores the work of a very talented photographer. Thomas Pickthall whose photographs captured Chester during the 1930s and a little after. Thomas was a local man who started taking pict… Organized by Chester History and Heritage | Type: exhibition
April 4, 2011 to September 5, 2011 – Vancouver Art Gallery Walking + Falling presents the work of three notable artists who have utilized new media to explore and represent complex notions of time, movement and memory.Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was an En… Organized by Vancouver Art Gallery and Bruce Grenville, senior curator | Type: exhibition
April 6, 2011 to August 22, 2011 – Sabatini Building, Floor 3, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía The worker-photography movement is often marginalized in discussions of how photographic modernism evolved over the course of the 20th century. This visit to the exhibition is intended to help recti… Organized by Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía | Type: exhibition
April 8, 2011 at 10pm to July 3, 2011 at 5pm – Julia Margaret Cameron Trust Dimbola Lodge Museum Exhibition Parkinson Photographs the Age of innocence Dimbola Lodge The Julia Margaret Cameron Museum Isle of Wight UK Vintage Norman Parkinson Photographs from Angela Williams Archive Organized by Angela Williams Archive AWA | Type: exhibition, -, parkinson, photographs, age, of, innocence
April 9, 2011 to July 30, 2011 – Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery Come and see some of the earliest photographs of Plymouth and discover the part played by the three towns of Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse in the development of photography. Amateurs and Artists… Organized by Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery/Royal Photographic Society | Type: exhibition
April 12, 2011 to August 13, 2011 – The Library of Congress This exhibition, drawn from a recent gift from the Liljenquist family, will feature 379 Civil War-era ambrotypes and tintypes of enlisted Union and Confederate soldiers. These exceptional portraits d… Organized by The Library of Congress | Type: exhibition
April 14, 2011 to August 1, 2011 – Merchant's House Museum Presented in collaboration with The Burns Archive, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War. Photographs of wounded Civil War soldiers from New York regiments, on disp… Organized by Merchant's House Museum | Type: exhibition
April 15, 2011 to September 4, 2011 – Gallery One, National Media Museum The Lives of Great Photographers is a compelling new exhibition drawn exclusively from the Museum's extensive and diverse Photography Collection, including works from The Royal Photographic Societ… Organized by National Media Museum | Type: exhibition
April 16, 2011 to July 10, 2011 – Bendigo Art Gallery George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film is the world's oldest photography museum and one of the world's oldest film archives, first opening its doors to the public in Roches… Organized by Bendigo Art Gallery, | Type: exhibition
April 18, 2011 to September 19, 2011 – Ilott Room, Level 4, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa In the 19th century, enterprising European photographers travelled to distant places such as Egypt, India, China, the American West, and the Pacific. Through the photographs they brought back, for th… Organized by Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa | Type: exhibition
April 26, 2011 to September 18, 2011 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art At the turn of the last century, night photography came into its own as an artistic genre. In the early years of the medium, capturing images under low-light conditions was nearly impossible, but by… Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Type: exhibition
May 7, 2011 to September 11, 2011 – Museum of Sydney Newly discovered photographs by internee Paul Dubotzki reveal what it was like to be interned in Australia during World War I. During World War I nearly 7000 so-called 'enemy aliens' were interned in… Organized by Museum of Sydney | Type: exhibition
May 7, 2011 to June 26, 2011 – Taipei Fine Arts Museum As part of a series of events planned by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum has organized the exhibition "Eye of the Times – Centennial Images of… Organized by Taipei Fine Arts Museum | Type: exhibition
May 11, 2011 to July 10, 2011 – Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern In October 2010, Simon Norfolk began a series of new photographs in Afghanistan, which takes its cue from the work of nineteenth-century British photographer John Burke. Norfolk's photographs reimagi… Organized by Tate Modern | Type: exhibition
May 12, 2011 to July 16, 2011 – Diemar/Noble Photography Celebration of the first century of photography in France with vintage photographs using a variety of techniques and on all sorts of subjects.Michael Diemar, gallery director of Diemar/Noble Photogra… Organized by Diemar/Noble | Type: exhibition
May 13, 2011 at 5pm to July 16, 2011 at 12pm – Liverpool Liverpool Photography Festival Look 11 starts Friday 13th May. http://www.look2011.co.uk/ My newly commissioned work 'Dogs in Cages' will be showing at the Bluecoat Gallery as part of the 'Confined'… Organized by Look 11 | Type: photography, festival
May 14, 2011 to July 10, 2011 – City Art Centre For the first time in over a decade five floors of the City Art Centre will be devoted to a display from the City's art collection. Spanning over 400 years of work, a great many of Scotland's leading… Organized by City Art Centre | Type: exhibition
May 18, 2011 to July 4, 2011 – Colmore Business District 2011 is unquestionably the year of street photography with a number of exhibitions and festivals exploring the genre taking place in cities across the UK. This exhibition is Birmingham's contribution… Organized by Pete James | Type: exhibtion
May 26, 2011 to April 30, 2012 – Swiss Camera Museum When films on a flexible support appeared on the market in the 1880s, the whole world of photography was radically transformed. Cameras underwent a complete metamorphosis, rapidly becoming smaller a… Organized by Swiss Camera Museum | Type: exhibition
May 27, 2011 to August 27, 2011 – FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE The FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE presents, for the first time in Spain, the work of the French photographer Eugène Atget (Libourne, 1857 - Paris, 1927), u unique master whose work made a crucial contribution to… Organized by FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE | Type: exhibition
June 4, 2011 to October 30, 2011 – Architecture, Room 128a, The Victoria and Albert Museum Bedford Lemere & Co. was the leading architectural photography company of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In business from the 1870s until the 1940s Bedford Lemere and his son Harry Bedfo… Organized by The Victoria and Albert Museum | Type: exhibition
June 17, 2011 to October 16, 2011 – Australian National Maritime Museum When Captain Robert Falcon Scott set off on his second voyage to explore Antarctica - the British Antarctic Expedition 1910 - he could not have predicted it would be his last. He died on the return j… Organized by Australian National Maritime Museum | Type: exhibition
June 17, 2011 at 9am to September 30, 2011 at 4:45pm – St Andrews University, School of Art History In the 1890s two young naturalists were sent on expeditions to the Arctic to collect specimens for the Zoology Museum of Professor D'Arcy Thompson at University College, Dundee. They also took photog… Organized by University of Dundee Museum Service | Type: exhibition
June 21, 2011 to August 14, 2011 – North American–Peruvian Cultural Institute In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Machu Picchu, a photography exhibition titled "Visiones de Machu Picchu - 100 años de fotografia en blanco y negro"(Visions of Machu Picchu… Organized by North American–Peruvian Cultural Institute | Type: exhibition
June 21, 2011 to September 25, 2011 – Swiss Alpine Museum In this digital age, one cannot but wonder at the achievement of the valiant photographer-mountain climber 140 years ago. Jules Beck – who grew up in Biel, Berne, Vevey and Strasbourg – was the first… Organized by Swiss Alpine Museum | Type: exhibition
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"A Cool White Christmas – almost two thirds of the continental USA has snow cover" (2012-12-26). Snow! In Winter! Global Warming is over, Anthony Watts assures us. Wait, didn't it never start? Or was it that Global Warming ended 16 years ago?
Still, snow this Christmas in North America puts the lie to British climate scientist Dr David Viner's speculation that snowfall in Britain will be rare at some unspecified time in the future, doesn't it?
It does if you're Anthony Watts battling a straw man. Once again anything that supports Anthony's assertions is climate while anything that contradicts him is weather.
Wait, it's January 6th and the snow is already receding. Winter must be over, Global Warming's back! (You can play too at National Snow Analyses.)

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Turmoil in Turkey has entered its fifth straight day as protests over the destruction of trees in a public park morphed into an indictment of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government.
And the "lady in red" — a woman who was sprayed directly in the face with teargas by a policeman on May 28 in Gezi Park of Taksim Square — has become the symbol of the dissidents.
The description of the photo by Reuters nails it (emphasis ours):
In her red cotton summer dress, necklace and white bag slung over her shoulder she might have been floating across the lawn at a garden party; but before her crouches a masked policeman firing teargas spray that sends her long hair billowing upwards.
Endlessly shared on social media and replicated as a cartoon on posters and stickers, the image of the woman in red has become the leitmotif for female protesters during days of violent anti-government demonstrations in Istanbul.
Birsen Altayli and Ayla Jean Yackley of Reuters report that walls around Taksim Square in the heart of Istanbul — a popular gathering place for the country's labor movement where Erdogan vows to build a mosque — are plastered with posters of the instantly iconic photo along with a message that read: "The more they spray, the bigger we get."
And the police have been spraying, as well as aggressively shooting demonstrators with water cannons, and in some instances savagely beating them.
The Turkish Medical Association claimed at least 3,195 people were injured in clashes Sunday and Monday — two have been killed — and some of the images that appear to show wounded protesters are downright grisly (warning: very graphic link).
On Tuesday Turkey's deputy prime minister Bulent Arinc apologized for "excessive violence" against the protesters while Erdogan remains defiant — he's blamed the unrest on "bums," "looters," the "extremist fringe," "Twitter," the main opposition party, and even "foreign agents," while also predicting that "the situation will return to normal" in a matter of days.
"[Erdogan has] not been behaving rationally at all," Gareth Jenkins, an Istanbul-based researcher at Johns Hopkins University, told USA Today. "He appears to be becoming almost delusional and refusing to accept the reality that these protests are mainly spontaneous and are being organized by small groups of people who've never engaged in politics before."
No moment captures that spontaneous defiance and the police's heavy-handed response better than the lady in red.
Here's the sequence:
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What It Was, Was Football
February 6, 2011
Superbowl, Superbowl, Superbowl … let's see, that one's football, isn't it?
What I know, or care, about sports could fill a thimble, but even I understood the importance this week when the Wall Street Journal announced the discovery of a tape of the Superbowl I game that was telecast live on both NBC and CBS in 1967. In an era when 2″ videotape was expensive and bulky, the television networks routinely reused the tapes or even tossed them out just to conserve space. Most of the first decade of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show remains the most famous victim of this colossal short-sightedness, but the first Superbowl has always been right behind it on television's "whoops, we maybe shoulda kept that, huh?" list. As its curator, Ron Simon, points out in the Journal piece, the Paley Center for Media has had Superbowl I perched forlornly atop its most-wanted list since before it started calling itself the Paley Center For Media.
While I'm as delighted about this find as any sports fan, I can't help but wonder about the real story behind this story. Because the Journal's reporting raises just as many questions as it answers.
First of all, the reporters, David Roth and Jared Diamond, wait until their third-to-last graf before they mention that the Superbowl I tape is incomplete. The half-time show and a "large chunk" of the third quarter are missing. Since 80% of the first Superbowl is a lot more than the 0% of the first Superbowl we had until recently, maybe it's a bit of a buzz-kill to dwell too long on that fact. But we also can't take Superbowl I off the missing list yet, either. Anybody who's been searching for the show for the last forty-three years will be searching for the missing quarter. The "Holy Grail," as executive Rick Bernstein calls it in the Journal, is now just a smaller and not-so-shiny grail.
The other fact that gets rather buried in the Journal article is that the tape's owner realized its significance back in 2005 – almost six years ago. It's not clear exactly when the Paley Center, which "restored" the tape that had been stored in a Philadelphia attic since 1967, became involved, but evidently it was closer to 2005 than to now. So why are we just hearing the news this week? The opportunistic timing of the announcement to coincide with this year's Superbowl is a little tacky. Given the magnitude of this discovery, shouldn't the folks at the Paley Center have felt some obligation to disclose it as soon as they knew it?
One reason behind the timing may be money, another critical issue that the Journal reporters don't get into until the very end of their report. At one point, Sports Illustrated estimated the value of a Superbowl I recording at $1 million. According to a lawyer representing the tape owner (who has not been named publicly, I guess for fear of being descended on by thousands of sports fanatics), the NFL offered $30,000 for it. If my between-line reading is correct, then the long delay, and the timing of the present announcement, stem from years of dickering between the owner of the tape and the copyright holder, neither of whom can benefit much from the Superbowl I tape without the other. And until that stalemate is broken, no one can view the recording, apparently not even at the Paley Center.
I don't know enough about the situation to take sides, but it does seem that someone who was smart enough to hold on to something that two entire television networks didn't think was worth keeping deserves a decent share of whatever profits that recording might yield.


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Thursday, January 15, 2009
This weekend on the show: End times theology for kids!
Update: Since I leaned heavily on the Slacktivist blog to get us through the horrid technical errors that left us phone-less, I'd be remiss if I didn't link him so you all could enjoy what I was reading.
- Slacktivist main page
- Posts on "Left Behind"
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I'll be certain to check it out.ReplyDelete
There's a Left Behind: The Kids now?ReplyDelete
Those two dried up old lizards will just keep milking this thing for as long as they can, won't they? I just looked at the Wikipedia page - so, these kids all had Christian parents, but they hadn't gotten around to making "the decision", so now they're stuck down here during the Tribulation, and will probably wind up in hell?
Honestly - if I were God, I'd sue these assholes for defamation of character.
Did you know that one of them accosted the Dalai Lama in a hotel in Israel a couple of years ago and tried to convert him?
Bad enough that this sort of crap exists, and now it is being aimed specifically at kids? Nasty stuff. I guess you have to get at the children early to make sure that they turn out stupid and ignorant.ReplyDelete
cipher, have you heard about the PREQUELS to the Left Behind series? The Anti-Jeebus was made from sperm from gay men.ReplyDelete
cipher, have you heard about the PREQUELS to the Left Behind series? The Anti-Jeebus was made from sperm from gay men.ReplyDelete
Aiming at the high-brow, well-thought-out stuff, I see. Oh, the humanity! My faith is shaking in its boots already.ReplyDelete
I hope someone mentions the late 70's early 80's movies from Mark 4 productions.ReplyDelete
Does anyone remember seeing these?
Thief in the Night, Distant Thunder, ect...
I'm pretty sure you don't watch the show, Rho. What makes you think we're trying to reach you as an audience, or are attempting to threaten your faith? Do you expect me to run show topics about Scientology or Mormonism past you too?ReplyDelete
These folks are not far from my house:ReplyDelete
Endtime Ministries
And look, they have a Youth Corps!
And the Endtime Youth Corps has a YouTube Channel.
Sounds like the theological equivalent of Red Dawn.ReplyDelete
What makes you think we're ...attempting to threaten your faith?ReplyDelete
Um, the fact that you do shows on atheism, contra Christianity. And I'm a Christian.
I mean, other than the fact that I'm a psychic. And it's blindingly obvious.
I'm just saying that you going after Left Behind would be a lot like Hank Hanegraaff dissecting Dan Barker's book. I mean, anyone could do it, but can one earn respect for it?
Sounds interesting :)ReplyDelete
I was always curious about that series, but never bothered
About that whole aspect of Christianity that's in love with the thought of the failure of life as we know it and also with the Book of Revelation and is happy about trouble in the Mideast because it's a "sign..."ReplyDelete
Pretty disturbing. Imo, it's one of those places where authentic spirituality ends and we enter the realm of the clearly psychological...
Um, the fact that you do shows on atheism, contra Christianity. And I'm a Christian.
Why don't you call in? Anyone can call, and you can grill the hosts.
Well your psychic powers failed, and you are in fact mistaken. Contrary to your fantasy, everything I post or discuss is not about you. We don't put on "The Atheist Experience" for your pleasure. I don't wish to make a convert of you. I don't actually give a damn whether you personally remain Christian all your life. I find you at most snotty and rude, more interested in firing off what you imagine to be clever one-liners than any kind of serious discussion.ReplyDelete
If you're not interested in the Left Behind series, it's because you're not their target audience either. Ergo, we're not talking either to or about you. If I do a show about Jehovah's Witnesses, I'm not talking to or about you. We're talking about "Left Behind Kids" because I think our viewers will be interested in observing one of the apologetics tools that Tim LaHaye uses to push his message on kids. You're not Tim LaHaye and you're not one of our viewers. The show does not relate to you in any way. Feel free not to watch, and try not to be shocked when you discover that the world is not a gigantic conspiracy against you, nor is it a mirror for your puny ego.
Go away for a while, I'm tired of you and turning on moderation.
Computer, define 'Persecution Complex'ReplyDelete
"Um, the fact that you do shows on atheism, contra Christianity. And I'm a Christian."
We atheists would happily dissect highbrow contemporary Christian literature... if we could find some.
The problem is that your theology does not have much - excuse me, ANY - intellectual substance. It's a collection of fairy stories and Bronze Age morality tales.
For example, the Bible tells us that the diversity of human languages occurred as punishment for the Tower of Babel. How is one supposed to "seriously" discuss such a demented notion?
One can, at least, find some sardonic pleasure in spectacles such as the success of the LEFT BEHIND series or utility in regarding it from an anthropological perspective; "Why Do People Read This Stuff?"
RED DAWN was a great movie.
cipher: Seriously.ReplyDelete
If you feel like having your intelligence physically sucked out through your eyes, you can visit http://www.leftbehind.com/prequels/ and learn all about it.
Of course, it was the first site to come up on the search since I don't really care enough to dig any deeper. Unlike some I'm only slightly masochistic.
Contrary to your fantasy, everything I post or discuss is not about you.ReplyDelete
Tell me about it. In another comment thread, Dan posted some comments directly in response to something I wrote, so I posted a response directly addressed to Dan. Then Rhology writes something along the lines "notice how Tommy blithely ignores my 10 arguments blah, blah, blah!"
Talk about being egocentric.
I find you at most snotty and rudeReplyDelete
Darth Rhology: Define snotty and rude and provide evidence why, on atheism, such qualities are bad.
Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
RDissonant here,ReplyDelete
Related to this theme, I'd like to point out that several schools in the Netherlands where I live, who outwardly state they are open to all religions equally, have recently put several books on the extra-credit list i disagree with. These books could be read instead of for example Darwin or even Dawkins for extra merit. These include the Bible, a bible-study our school published itself (the religion teacher wrote it) and nastiest of all several books by mr. Jenkins, which include basically teen-books which describe the theoretical evilness of having atheists at the wheel. It's a dystopic view similar to the movie 'equilibrium', only with culture/emotion replaced by religion. Essentially like the Left Behind idea, they are considered by our teachers as accurate and important, despite being, of course, complete and utter nonsense.
Anyone read these religion-promoting LB-style books by mr. Jenkins that would like to comment?
I find that business about the Netherlands very disturbing. I look to Europe - the Netherlands, especially - as an example of the sort of progressive society we ought to have, and could have, if everyone here weren't so goddamn selfish.ReplyDelete
Jeroen, what kind of schools? Are they Christian private schools?
It just never ends, does it? Adding to my last comment - we'll never have a truly progressive society because, not only are self-absorption and "me first-ism" ubiquitous here - nearly everyone in this country is a moron.
What really bothers me is that tripe like this gets published and the untold talented wither in obscurity, unread.ReplyDelete
RED DAWN was a great movie.ReplyDelete
Yeah, maybe if you were a teenager like I was during the Reagan years. Looking back now though, it is just a silly fantasy.
Now that I think about it though, I'm surprised that they didn't try to portray the Wolverines as dyed in the wool Christians to further play up the differences between them and the godless Commie Russians.
Aiming at the high-brow, well-thought-out stuff, I see.
Yeah, it's always the other guy's beliefs that are low-brow and not well-thought-out. Do you really think that you beliefs are any less weird (from a naturalistic worldview) that those of the Rapturists?
Speaking of Red Dawn, it's being remade. Except instead of Soviets parachuting in, it's going to be Muslims... which means they now have an air force.ReplyDelete
I can't speak for you, but I'm kind of tired of movies taking the easy way out and making Muslims the villains. Yes I know some of them are evil, no I don't want to waste 10 bucks and 2 hours to watch it.
Speaking of Red Dawn, it's being remade. Except instead of Soviets parachuting in, it's going to be Muslims...ReplyDelete
Then where does the "red" part come in? Jesus.
I suspect a remake of such Reagan-era paranoid jingoism might have played better in the kind of neocon shithole America would be had it elected McCain. As it is, it may be a hit or a curiosity. The director is a longtime stunt coordinator helming his first feature. So, expect mindless Hollywood Product centered on lots of action and short on, shall we say, political exegesis.
political exegesis.
Not to mention any connection with reality.
Although Red Dawn, for me, was decent macho entertainment, I had real issues with the idea of a Soviet army getting across the ocean without any supplies. As a submariner at the time, I found the concept that the Soviet Navy would somehow dominate the oceans professionally insulting.
I am interested in seeing how this movie solves the supply problem. It should make great comedy. (albeit, unintended comedy)
- Anonymous1/18/2009 11:07 AM
Off-topic question:ReplyDelete
Has anyone in this atheist community researched the claims that Possum_momma is a fraud? She's been accused of running several Internet scams, including lying about that famous Christmas essay, the Tom and Nancy Fundamentalist Christian fiasco, having her kids stalked on a camping trip, claiming various fictitious medical maladiies for herself and her children, the Gosselin blog drama, and a little scamming at the Split Coast Stampers forums?
I don't mean just asking her, but actually researching the claims themselves in a methodical, impartial way?
Both Matt and I consider Possum Momma to be a close personal friend. We have known her for several years; we both speak to her on a regular basis; and we know a lot about her husband and kids. The bullshit that people are saying about her is personally offensive to me. There are some very, very stupid people in the world who won't let go of a false concept once they've latched onto it.ReplyDelete
Someone stalked her children?!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1/18/2009 6:35 PM
I guess by saying it's "personally offensive," that means you don't feel impartial enough to examine the claims?
Hypothetically, if she is guilty, then your taking her at her word would be a mistake.
I was hoping someone reading this, without the emotional investment of a good friend, might have investigated so that there was independent verification of any of the stories listed above?
OverTheMoon, while I don't have a personal stake in the matter, Kazim probably means that he knows her well enough to know that the charges are not true.ReplyDelete
Here is how the movie will solve the supply problem...
The opening scene will be the bottom of the Atlantic ocean...Peaceful...Calm...Several brightly colored fish will be swimming around, even if those fish are not indigenous to the Atlantic.
Suddenly, a hand will reach out and grab one of them. It's Bin Ladin swimming, with a dialysis machine behind him. He will swallow the tiny fish whole, and, once he reaches the beach, he will put his hands on his knees, and take several minutes to catch his breath.
Sorry, but I had to throw that in.
I was hoping someone reading this, without the emotional investment of a good friend, might have investigated so that there was independent verification of any of the stories listed above?
So you are proposing a Federal Special Prosecutor to go after a blogger to see whether rumors that do not indicate any criminal activity be investigated just to satisfy your prurient interests?
Why not, just for the sake of argument, take the word of people who know her in real life and can attest that she is a very nice person?
Unless, you want to jump in with a conspiracy theory started by some asswipe who gets his jollies abusing random people on the internet?
Personally, I'll take the word of people who have had real life dealings with her. Also, I personally live by a code which, in short, says "Don't assume people are jerks, let them prove their jerk". I find I get along with more people this way, and generally enjoy life more.
Might I suggest that you do the same.
Dear OTM,ReplyDelete
Kindly go away and don't attempt to use this forum to spread libel again.
I am interested in seeing how this movie solves the supply problem. It should make great comedy.ReplyDelete
That's easy Mad Dog, they all sneak across the Mexican border and pretend to be Latinos. After several years of working in landscaping and construction, they stock up enough supplies and in a lightning sweep, seize control of every no name town in Flyover Country, USA. Meanwhile, all of the Muslim immigrants in Europe take over the NATO countries and use the military hardware against us.
The claims against Possummomma are malicious and false. Having been on the receiving end of malicious and false claims by a vengeful theist myself, I can tell you it's not fun. Attempts to spread such falsehoods here will not be tolerated.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1/19/2009 3:18 PM
Thanks for the responses. I am not sure about the Internet abuser, but I suppose I'll come across him if he's related to this isue.ReplyDelete
I think the advice to talk to people who really know her is what I was trying to do. I do understand not investigating if you really know someone. I just thought maybe someone close or at least familiar with the backstory could say, "Here's a few links to look at."
Not trying to libel, just asking...I've been reading about this and her blog can be read now with comments.
Thanks, anyway.
I knew people in Oklahoma 30 years ago who believed they would get raptured at any moment. These people have either died by now, or if they still believe in the rapture, they've wasted 30 years of their lives waiting for it.ReplyDelete
BTW, I'll have a good laugh when I hear about the death of 79-year-old Hal Lindsey, one of the cranks who has made a career of promoting the rapture delusion over the past 40 years. Instead of learning the obvious lesson, however, Lindsey's christian fans will just rationalize his non-rapture by saying that he went to heaven any way.
I think you're missing the point.ReplyDelete
See, there's this real world out there, where things happen. People who know other people in this real world can see them happen and tell you "I know that happened." Not everything that happens happens in a hyperlink on the internet.
What Kazim and others are telling you is not that they are not impartial, not that they don't want to "investigate" someone they know personally, but that there's nothing to investigate. The rumors are baseless, and they know this from personal, real life experience. Just because they can't take you to a website that has pictures and video to back them up doesn't mean they're wrong or lying.
Moreover, where's the evidence for your claims? You have people telling you "We know her, we know this is the way it happened, and those other stories are bullshit." Perhaps, then, that should lead you, instead of twisting their words to make it seem like they were admitting their inability to be objective, to question the veracity of unbacked, randomly circulating rumors.
Unless you're just here to spread the rumors under the guise of an innocent "investigation," which is entirely possible.
I think (hope) OTM has gotten the message, Akusai. Thanks all the same. Further comments regarding Possummomma, even from our friends, will be moderated into oblivion, as they're OT and not appropriate here.ReplyDelete
I reckon these rapture believing christians are just a bunch of pussies who have locked onto a prophesy that, if fulfilled, will allow them to avoid death.ReplyDelete
I read the first book of the kid's version of Left Behind after my nephew manifested some vague interest in reading it (which fortunately never went past "vague"), and it is total garbage. Teaches all the good things Christianity is famous for: racism, intolerance, divisionism and general stupidity.ReplyDelete
My local library is overrun with copies of those books, including the audiobook versions, clogging up the shelves.
One of my hobbies used to be reading End Times novels. I've read scenarios ranging from Roman Catholic (which actually wasn't that bad a novel, as far as such things go,) to a Seventh-Day Adventist version that had mandatory Sunday worship as "The Mark Of The Beast." But most followed variations of the standard fundagelical Scofield Bible Pre-millenial Dispensationalist view. And I can say that, without doubt, the Left Behind books (at least the three or four I managed to force my way through) are The. Worst. Novels. EVER. They are to fiction, even End Times fiction, what George Dubya is to the American Presidency.ReplyDelete
Oh, and thanks for linking to the Slacktivist Left Behind Dissections. The readers and commenters are a very diverse bunch, and the resulting comment discussions are almost as good as the original dissections.
Considering all the technical issues, I think you folks acquitted yourselves very well.ReplyDelete
I too bad Rho didn't call. Maybe next week he'll take the opportunity to try to convince Matt of the "error in his ways"
I too bad Rho didn't call. Maybe next week he'll take the opportunity to try to convince Matt of the "error in his ways"ReplyDelete
Knowing him, he probably has a new post up on his blog about how The Atheist Experience is censoring him because they're afraid of answering his questions. Like I said before, he's a legend in his own mind.
I have to admit that it is not without a small measure of glee that I have bounced several of Rhology's efforts to post new comments. Some of them have been fairly long, too. I guess he didn't believe me when I told him he was going away for a while.ReplyDelete
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Have you all seen the No Spend Month that NWEdible is heading up for October?
The premise of the challenge is to set a budget for one month, not including your regular bills (mortgage/rent, utilities, etc.), that allows you to save a bundle of money by… not spending it. The budget should include money for food, gas and whatever household expenses you normally have. But this budget is radical. You are cutting your expenses way, way down. Down to nil, or as close to it as you can manage.
Like, instead of spending $750 on food for the month, you are only going to spend $120. Instead of racking up the miles in your SUV, you rack up the miles on your bike, because that gas costs money. Instead of getting coffee at the drive through, you brew it at home.
Then, at the end of the month, you have a pile of money that you saved. Maybe enough to jump-start that emergency fund or make an extra house payment, or pay off a credit card.
To join the challenge, you have to do three things: one, set the budget; two, track your expenses; and three, set a goal for what you save. It's been a while since I've joined in on a challenge. This one seems a bit overdue for us. Doing a no-spend month is a great way to hit the reset button on out of control spending.
I read about the challenge over the weekend and decided to go for it. But I didn't actually get off to a great start.
Yesterday morning, it started raining at 6:00 am and Rick wanted a ride to work instead of getting soaked on his bike. So I took him. The boys, used to going to the bakery on mornings we drive Rick, begged for pastries. I, weak from lack of coffee, gave in and spent $10 on the way home for buttery, flaky goodness. Later, as I was cleaning up the crumbs, I remembered it was October 1st! ARGH! It's NO SPEND MONTH! $10 in the hole already.
It's ok. The whole month isn't shot because of one slip-up on the first day. I know we can make the ten bucks up later. We actually used to run a really tight ship around here. But as we've paid off various debts (two credit cards, a car loan and a student loan done! Woo!), we've gotten a lot more relaxed about our spending.
Our budget for October is $335. We are a family of five, and to be honest, I think we could go lower. However, we have a few commitments for the month already involving friends and family from out-of-town, that I just don't feel good about backing out of. Even so, this will allow us to save $1000 this month.
I plan to put that $1k in a separate savings account towards an emergency fund.
Because I'm always curious how others come up with their budget numbers, I'm going to share mine more specifically with you.
For food, I know we can mainly eat out of the pantry and freezer, except for dairy and flour. So I budgeted $30 per week for food. This actually allows for some wiggle room, but I figure that's a good thing. I'm hoping I can get some Halloween candy to give away out of this too.
For gas, I cut what we normally spend in half. This pretty much has no wiggle room, and I think it will be the toughest category for us. Especially if we get some bad weather. $60 is about a tank and a half for the month, plus the 3/4 of a tank right the 4Runner is at right now.
Our dining out budget would have been a zero for the month, but since I already blew that yesterday, I accounted for the ten dollars already spent. Otherwise, we'll be cooking at home and Rick will brown bag it.
I budgeted $30 for Rick's hair cut. He's been putting it off for a couple of months and is getting pretty shaggy. When I proposed doing the No Spend month, his only request was an allowance for a hair cut.
E and H both just hit a growth spurt. H needs new shoes. I'm budgeting $20.
Now comes the previous commitment part. We had already committed to a high school football game (cheap), a double date (yay – it's been so long), and a pumpkin patch (it is October after all). I figured $12 for the game if we fill the kids up before we go and bring snacks from home. I'm budgeting $50 each for the date and the pumpkin patch. That's cutting it a bit close, but I really want to try to stick to it.
If you add all that up, it's $362. I also have $90 in swim-lessons coming up for the kids this month, which Erica says is exempt from the budget. Together, that's $973 less than our average monthly expenses. I wanted to make it an even $1000 in savings, so I'm going to see if I can make up that $27 somewhere.
I plan to keep track of how we're doing and report here on it once a week.
What about you? Are you down with No Spend this month?
Please comment and tell me if you are going to join in on the challenge, what you are budgeting (you don't have to get all specific if you don't want), and what you want to do with your pile of saved dough.


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@tradeBargnani Not sure many fans would want another rebuild. Irving is the key but Cavs do only have 13 wins.
@tradeBargnani Not sure many fans would want another rebuild. Irving is the key but Cavs do only have 13 wins.
1) Moving out of a rebuild is not done by simply saying, "OK, we are finishing our rebuild now" or "We are going to accelerate the process." Unfortunately, that is exactly what Colangelo and Co. have done leading in to this season. If that is in fact the case though, well, the Raptors are now just a shitty team.
2) Like it or not the Raptors are still very much in a rebuild. The problem is the Raptors don't have very many assets to help the process outside of development and maturation of current players - they have no first round draft pick this season and they have limited to no financial flexibility without a major trade between now and trade deadline or amnestying Bargnani.
3) What would acknowledgement of a rebuild actually look like? Calderon starting - been going on for years. DeRozan carrying the scoring load - been going on for years. Patch work at small forward - been going on for years. Frustration with Bargnani - been going on for years. Amir, a stiff, or a rookie starting at C - been going on for years. A point guard controversy/debate - been going on for years. All those things have been going on for years and are continuing so how can one assume the rebuild is complete?
4) Despite the Raptors insistence they are not doing a rebuild, lets consider the veteran situation on this team:
- Bargnani has missed half the last 2 seasons and is hardly a contributor to winning or success,
- Kleiza has missed the better part of 3 years due to a terrible injury and has no future with this team,
- Amir is what he is: a solid reserve big man who can start when needed but lack of focus leads to inconsistencies,
- Aaron Gray barely plays and is deep depth off the bench,
- John Lucas is the Aaron Gray of PGs,
- Pietrus is a shell of his former self and no longer plays,
- Anderson is a 30 year old journeyman who is a solid 5th wing off the bench but the Raptors use as a clutch time performer which is great if you want to live and die by the D-Leaguer,
- Calderon is an UFA with no guarantee to stay and continues to start leading the team nowhere,
- Lowry is a shell of his former self and despite his immense talent he looks to be an utter failure in Toronto,
- DeRozan is the youngest veteran and an NBA starter - nothing more, nothing less - getting paid star money starting next season. Like many NBA players he has incredible games followed by bad games. The difference between a star and starter is consistency.
Now ask yourself, which of those veterans are going to blaze a trail to the playoffs? Which of those veterans are capable of making an all-star game? Which of those veterans are anything more than role players - admittedly some very good role players but role players nonetheless? Which of those players are absolute keepers moving forward?
I don't know about you but the answer I keep getting is "none" outside of Lowry who could be an all-star in my opinion but has shown even he isn't an absolute keeper.
This of course leaves ED, TR, JV, QA, DD, and LF as players under 25 with 4 years or less NBA experience plus add in Amir and you have a nice nucleus that is not going to win you many games but are all solid pieces should REAL talent find its way in to the locker room.
5) Of the 10 veterans listed in 4), only 5 actually play at this time.... yet the team is not rebuilding.... hmmm.
6) The roster continues to have about 40% turnover each season..... yet no rebuild..... hmmmmm.
6) So wrapping up, the best thing Toronto can do is accept the reality they are still very much in a rebuild. The Raptors aren't good and a lack of talent continues to be the problem in getting the team out of a state of rebuilding and into a state of competing.
I agree with @RaptorsMR that fans don't want another rebuild but it is not about having another rebuild now - the Raptors have never left rebuilding in the the first place and it is already a given. Fans don't want another forced rebuild in 2-3 seasons - that is the issue.
Now is the time to fully embrace rebuilding because the team is certainly not competing with the teams over .500. This team was built around Bargnani and the idea Andrea was a star - and that plan was a failure. The Raptors already have a head start in continuing to rebuild because Ross and JV have shown they are legit NBA talent which is more than most draft picks. The only thing Steffi and Bryan seem to do well is draft - so why not build to your strength?
Do anything and everything possible to accumulate 2013 and 2014 draft picks and discarded young players (Derrick Williams, Alec Burks, etc.) who still have potential. In exchange, take on the worst of the worst contracts or if need be part with a talented player such as Lowry or trade DeRozan. Plan for big cap space in the summer of 2015 when Ross and JV are in final year of rookie deals and Fields and Amir have just come off the books.
Now is the time to create an environment where you can get your own star(s) by:
1) drafting him/them,
2) acquiring assets to trade for him/them,
3) making a team attractive enough to entice a free agent in a couple of seasons.
Play hard, play to win, play to develop and grow. But for the love all that is sacred and pure, enough of this half-assed bullsh!t Raptors fans have been forced to claim is the path to success - it is not. This path leads to mediocrity and forced rebuilding shortly down the road. **End rant**


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Swiss tourist gang-raped in central India, police say
13 men questioned in connection with attack
A Swiss woman who was on a cycling trip in central India with her husband has been gang-raped by eight men, police said Saturday. The attack comes three months after the fatal gang-rape of a woman aboard a New Delhi bus outraged Indians.
Authorities detained and questioned 13 men in connection with the latest attack, which occurred Friday night as the couple camped out in a forest in Madhya Pradesh state after bicycling from the temple town of Orchha, local police officer R.K. Gurjar said.
The men beat the couple and gang-raped the woman, he said. They also stole the couple's mobile phone, a laptop computer and 10,000 rupees ($188).
The woman, 39, was treated at a hospital in the nearby city of Gwalior, Gurjar said, adding that she and her husband apparently suffered no major injuries.
A photo showed the woman walking while being escorted by police to the hospital. Her face was concealed with a hood, a common practice in India, where law does not allow rape victims to be identified publicly to protect them from the stigma attached to rape in the conservative country.
Police detained 13 men and questioned them, Gurjar said. Six of the men were released after questioning. No other details were immediately available.
Indian television stations showed scores of police searching the forest where the attack occurred.
'Deeply disturbing'
Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesman Tilman Renz described the case as "deeply disturbing" and said Swiss diplomats were assisting the couple.
The diplomats called on Indian authorities "to do everything to quickly find the perpetrators so that they can be held accountable," Renz said in a statement.
Last month, the Swiss government issued a travel notice for India that included a warning about "increasing numbers of rapes and other sexual offences" in the South Asian nation.
India has seen outrage and widespread protests against attacks on women since December's fatal gang-rape of a young woman on a moving bus in New Delhi, the capital. The crime horrified Indians and set off nationwide protests about India's treatment of women and spurred the government to hurry through a new package of laws to protect them.
One of six suspects in the December attack was found dead in a New Delhi jail this past week. Authorities said he hanged himself, but his family and lawyer insisted foul play was involved. A magistrate is investigating. Four other men and a juvenile remain on trial for the attack.


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2014 marks the 30th anniversary of the classic 1980's movie Footloose starring Kevin Bacon. Talk show host Jimmy Fallon just celebrated the occasion by banning dancing on his show. The ban ended when Kevin reenacted his famous moves on Fallon's stage. Download and listen to the song "Footloose" by Kenny Loggins on the library's Freegal Music Site, and celebrate these musical anniversaries with your own fancy footwork.
Other anniversaries this year include:
The California based group The Offspring has been together 30 years as of this year. The band has sold over 40 million albums worldwide and are widely considered to be one of the best selling Punk Rock groups of all time.
Also 30 years ago, Bruce Springsteen released his famed LP Born in The U.S.A. to much commercial and critical success. This one album sold over 30 million copies was the highest selling release of 1985. It was also the first compact disc manufactured in the United States for commercial release.
It has been 20 years since Pink Floyd released their last album Division Bell . The main concept of the LP was the use of communication to solve problems in life. The name of the album is after the division bell that is rung in the British Parliament that signals when a vote is to take place. Will they release any new music? There are plenty of rumors on the Internet indicating they will, but we will have to wait and see.
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In late September, astronomers using a telescope in Russia spotted a new comet, now going by the name of C/2012 S1 (ISON). It's currently not visible without some fairly high-end hardware, but the preliminary calculations of its trajectory suggest that it's likely to pass close to both the Earth and Sun about a year from now, a path that has the potential to provide a once-in-a-lifetime show.
According to a number of articles that appeared at about the same time, the comet's orbit is taking it nearly directly at the Sun, and will get within 1.4 million kilometers of the Sun's surface in November of next year, which should provide a lot of heat to melt the surface and expel gas from the comet. By January, it will be about 60 million kilometers from Earth.
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Jam Tart
May 15, 2010 at 1:34 pm 55 comments
Lately, it seems to me that one of the most important things about being alive is, well, food. Even before this whole "baking thing" :) became a part of my identity, food has been as important as housing and education.
I come from a family where my grandfather laid the foundation for food appreciation… Heavy, dusty potatoes, long, gorgeously orange carrots, crackly-skinned poultry and lots of real cream and butter (lots of it.) My father has kept the tradition alive, too – among my favorite weekend dinners are homemade butternut ravioli with home-grown tomato sauce, barbeque ribs made with his secret hand-mixed chili powder, and crisp, creamy sweet potato fries.
It's not just the holidays and weekends when we eat well. My mother claims not to enjoy cooking, but I don't buy it for a minute. I've seen her make potstickers, mixing together the skin with only flour and water, chopping pork and herbs for the filling. I've seen the way her face lights up when I taste test a new red bean filled bun. She likes to cook for the same reasons I do: to savor something delicious, and to watch other people do it too.
When I was in middle school, lunch was the only unhealthy meal I got, paid for out of a vending machine. I'd wolf down a bag of potato chips, a pack of sour gummy worms, and a bottle of Dr. Pepper. Not so much anymore. When I eat out, it's sushi or potato and mushroom piroshkies; when I pack it myself it's a turkey sandwich on homemade bread and a blackberry yogurt.
Most of the things I blog about aren't healthy, but I don't treat myself to chocolate cookies and peanut butter cheesecake every day. I know you're meant to eat these things wisely and share the rest. It's important to us to eat healthy, and that's what we do. And even when it's not completely "healthy," like when we generously add heavy cream to our mashed potatoes or deep fry halibut cheeks, at least we know we're using quality ingredients.
I can hardly remember the last time we bought bread, since my mother makes it all herself: fresh tomato basil, ciabatta, carrot dinner rolls, naan, pita pockets and hamburger buns. Our herb garden is flourishing under the shy Seattle sunlight, and the vegetables are following – acorn squash, Japanese cucumber, arugula, snow peas, butter lettuce. We've got the promise of apples, pears, currants, and Asian pears to come.
As for what we don't grow or make, we get pickier and pickier as the years go by. We've switched mostly over to organic fruit now at the grocery store. We love the fresh, firm fish that the Puget Sound has to offer. I like to use organic evaporated cane juice instead of white granulated sugar. We still only buy what we can afford, and we budget our shopping list, but we have definitely gotten choosier.
When Mother's Day rolled around this year, I settled on making a Jam Tart. I didn't exactly plan ahead, so Sunday morning I had two hours to get the whole thing baked. I put the tart crust dough in the freezer to chill, and then I rummaged through the fridge until I realized we didn't have any jam left. Drat.
I remember, as I drove to the closest grocery store, being annoyed at myself for not making fresh jam myself earlier. Blackberry? Orange marmalade? Strawberry? I could have made all of those from scratch, I thought. When I got to the store – one I wouldn't have picked if I hadn't been pressed for time – I stood before their unimpressive selection of jams and jellies.
I didn't even bother looking at the inexpensive generic brands or the sugar free versions. I picked up a jar, turned it around, scanned the ingredients. I grabbed another, checked the origin of the fruit. On the top shelf, I finally found one small jar of marionberry preserves – a little glass thing faceted like a black diamond. The brand seemed solid and the ingredients looked good. It was also two dollars more pricey than anything else.
But I didn't think twice before buying it and running back to the car, barely on schedule.
Inexplicably, days after the tart was eaten and gone, I found myself thinking about that jar. There was definitely nothing wrong with the jam. It was smooth, sweet, fruity – but it was expensive. And it wasn't even eaten straight from the jar with a spoon or spread onto a crusty loaf. It was baked into a tart. In hindsight, perhaps I should have bought something a little more affordable. You have to make sacrifices somewhere, right?
Am I turning into a food snob? I swore I never would. But I'm the one person of my friends who won't eat if we go to Qdoba or Wendy's for lunch, instead walking to the next door Trader Joe's or waiting to go home to eat. I shop for fruit the way some girls shop for shoes. And even though we can't exactly afford it, I beg to go to Whole Foods on special occasions.
I think it's a good thing to care about your food: where it comes from, what it's been treated with, how fresh it is. But I think I've also got to consider what things are really worth, and when they really matter. It's easy enough to buy a little $6 jar of jam when the only thing I spend my own money on is ingredients. But when I'm on my own at college three months from now, I won't be able to get away with those kinds of food purchases all the time.
I think the key is balance. I won't compromise my food ethics, and I'll always have an appreciation for good food. But I'll never force it on anyone else, and I'll still have to be responsible about my purchases. Maybe not everyone will agree, but I think that's just another aspect of caring about your food. For now, I'll take it one meal at a time, forkful by forkful of Mother's Day jam tart.
In the food world, this jam tart has a great resume. It's from David Lebovitz's new book Ready for Dessert, and I found it over at Smitten Kitchen, where Deb has never led me astray. It has tons of good reviews through comments, and I knew it would be a winner as soon as I made it.
But you know what? It was just okay. I had a lovely Mother's Day with my mom, grandma, and dad. We went out for dim sum and came home to a gorgeous afternoon. We cut open the tart, plated it. I went outside to photograph it and heard my family talking from inside.
"It's… sweet. Wow."
I took a bite and couldn't believe it – it was definitely, definitely sweet. A little too sweet even by my standards. Maybe I did something wrong, since the tart had such great reviews all around. But we agreed that the crust was fantastic, a little crisp and a little soft and reminiscent of corn bread. I'll definitely be making it again, maybe with a different filling… Sweet potato? Blueberries? Something savory, like grits? It would all work. Or maybe I'll just use a thinner layer of jam.
So much for the $6 jar!
Jam Tart
From David Lebovitz via Smitten Kitchen
Makes a 9″ tart
1 1/2 cups (210 grams) all-purpose flour
1/2 cup (70 grams) stone-ground cornmeal or polenta
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
9 tablespoons (4 1/2 ounces or 130 grams) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup (100 grams) granulated sugar
1 large egg, whole
1 large egg, separated
1/8 teaspoon almond extract
1 1/3 to 1 3/4 cups (450 grams) jam or marmalade
2 tablespoons (30 grams) coarse-crystal or granulated sugar
In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, cornmeal, baking powder and salt. In a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, mix the butter and 1/2 cup (100 grams) sugar together until smooth. Add the egg, egg yolk and almond extract and beat until combined. Gradually add the flour mixture and mix until the dough just comes together.
Transfer about one-third of the dough to a lightly floured counter and shape it into a log about 2 inches (5 cm) in diameter. Wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate it until needed, or stick it in the freezer.
Transfer the remaining dough to a buttered 9-inch (23-cm) tart pan with a removable bottom of a 9-inch (23-cm) springform pan. Using your hands, press the dough evenly into the bottom. If using a tart pan, press the dough up the sides to the rim of the pan and set the tart pan on a baking sheet. If using a springform pan, press the dough about 3/4-inch (2-cm) up the sides of the pan. Refrigerate the dough-lined pan until firm, at least one hour, or for half an hour in the freezer.
Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Spread the jam or marmalade evenly over the dough in the pan. Cut the chilled dough into very thin discs with a sharp paring knife, or use a cookie cutter. Arrange them slightly overlapped in concentric circles over the jam to form a top crust. Whisk the remaining egg white with a teaspoon of water until frothy; brush evenly over the tart lid and then sprinkle with 2 tablespoons (30 grams) coarse sugar. Bake until the top crust is golden brown, about 25 minutes. Let cool completely.
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The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is taking its beef with Facebook's privacy policies to the Federal Trade Commission once again. A new complaint comes in the wake of Facebook's latest updates to its privacy policy. According to EPIC and 14 other consumer groups, Facebook's decision to open up even more personal information as "public" is a violation of user expectations, it diminishes privacy, and it contradicts Facebook's own representations about how the service works.
In the complaint, which was filed on Wednesday, the groups accused Facebook of engaging in unfair and deceptive trade practices and violating consumer protection laws. In addition to the 38-page document (PDF) submitted to the FTC, EPIC also sent a letter (PDF) to Congress, asking members of the Senate and House to keep a close eye on the Commission's investigation into Facebook.
"Facebook continues to manipulate the privacy settings of users and its own privacy policy so that it can take personal information provided by users for a limited purpose and make it widely available for commercial purposes," reads the letter. "The company has done this repeatedly and users are becoming increasingly angry and frustrated."
This new complaint will be stacked on top of a previous complaint from EPIC filed in December, along with numerous others filed by other organizations (such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation). The groups have expressed their frustration over the FTC's inability to move quickly on these issues, but indicated that they still hold out hope that the Commission can take steps to protect user privacy on behalf of Facebook's userbase.
Update: Facebook responded to the complaint by noting once again that it believes it's working within legal limits by pushing out its latest feature set. "Our new features are providing beneficial new social experiences to people around the world that are transparent, consistent with user expectations, and in full compliance with legal requirements," Facebook spokesperson Andrew Noyes told Ars.


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Monday, January 07, 2013
A Note
I finally got around to writing notes and signing fabric charms for a group of very earnest fabric lovers and quilters. Through a group on flickr, they've swapped and collected virtually every printed fabric that I've designed over the past seven years. Pretty cool. It is really very flattering and humbling, so it was fun to send them each a tiny something.
I kept almost accidentally writing the notes as thank you's, because that's just how I feel, grateful. And to all of you whether you left a thought, a prayer or a congratulations for me in silence or in the comments of my last post, a very heartfelt THANK YOU. I can't say it enough. So appreciated.
Jeff is helping to train our young Joseph for his newly acquired school sport of wrestling. Yesterday that had Joseph running up and down our backyard hill with a full sized punching bag on his back as well as (umm) having to slap his dad in the face. (I was told that was for courage. But I wasn't allowed to slap him even though I could use a giant heap of courage.) This morning Joseph was asked to recite the definition of courage to his dad at breakfast: "Courage is the ability to face fear, pain, danger or intimidation" he said a little proud of his memory.
Yes, I will take some of that. Without the slap.
xo, Anna
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See, this is exactly why people love your fabric. It obviously comes from the heart :)ReplyDelete
I hope you realize there is a reason, beyond your beautiful designs, that our little group loves you so much! Taking time out to do something special for us is just one of the many ways we've seen how beautiful your heart is! Thanks again!ReplyDelete
I echo the sentiments of Kelly before me. I'm not a part of the charm swap, but I agree with their love of your fabrics! It goes deeper than just the colors and design, it's blog posts like this, and your constant presence in the sewing community. :) Thanks for inspiring usReplyDelete
We were a humble group that represents just a smattering of the people who love your fabrics. I pulled my charms out today to put them in a quilt. It will be my epic AMH quilt!ReplyDelete
Sounds like Joseph will do very well, work and courage and following your heart, a roadmap for life I think. I dug out some of my early AMH fabric today to add to a scrap quilt...cutting those FQs was hard but now I get to see the fabrics often instead of their being tucked away in my stash.ReplyDelete
Don't we all need a little dose of courage!ReplyDelete
Sweet to have fans of your fabric!ReplyDelete
Yay for Joseph ~ he's dedicated and so is his Dad!
I enjoy knowing that when I look at a finished project I can say, oh, that is from Anna Maria. You are special! xoReplyDelete
So true. I think most of us here tend to go weak in the knees for gorgeous fabric, but yours are made even more beautiful by what you share with readers here. I call you my favorite fabric celebrity!ReplyDelete
I usually enjoy the challenge of working strictly with what I find in thrift and antique shops, but for your fabrics? I order yardage. Sweet, sweet glorious, decadent yardage.
From one graduate wrestling mom (with knee hi through high school wrestling under my belt) to a new wrestling mom ...... I have one tip / word ........PURELL Hand Sanitizer !!!!!! and be on the look out for (yuck) ring worm ...... been there .... done that .... many times ...... my boys are both now in college , and but for a brief try at Penn State inter mural wrestling, we are DONE !!! :) (but my 22 year old son still won't give up his "lucky" wrestling shoes ... held together with duck tape and stench ! .....I'll let his girlfriend deal with those now !)ReplyDelete
Thank goodness you have your pretty fabric and designs to offset the stinky boy stuff ! (that's how I survived all those wrestling matches and tournaments .... always had some hand piecing or stitching to do while sitting on the bleachers.)
Love it that Joseph is starting wrestling! I have a special place in my heart for that sport, since my Daddy wrestled when he was in high school. *smile* Oh, and I love Joseph's definition of courage... awesome. Reminds me of John Wayne's quote (coming from a home of JW fans it doesn't surprise me that I remember it), "Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway."ReplyDelete
Oh! By the way, Anna, I picked up a 1955 embroidery book at a local antique store awhile back. As I was flipping through it I spotted a blanket that looks a ton like the knit one your Mom made (that you showed in your Needleworks book)!
Hugs and kisses,
Achaia xxx
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I also heard John Wayne's version! Love that. It's helped me many times.ReplyDelete
-- Sarvi
My block came today! Thank you so much for taking the time to make our amazing quilts extra special!ReplyDelete
I can't wait to use all of your prints that we've collected through that group... and to add the very special block that you sent us into the design. I'm so very appreciative that you spent your time to send all of us a little something! :)ReplyDelete


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Sorry for the lack of posts lately. We've been up to a lot. We spent some time pulling weeds, trimming hedges, cleaning up the flower beds and mowing this weekend too, but I didn't get a picture. This is very sad, because it was the first time Rick used the new push mower! Other garden news – the sunflowers and okra I planted are up and should make a nice screen soon. But between all the projects, I've been pretty exhausted and have had weird hip-nerve-fire-stabbing pain going on my right side. Because of that, I've been spending the boys' nap time (my usual blog writing time) napping myself. 38 weeks pregnant and counting. Here are some pictures of what we've been up to over the last couple weeks. As always, click to view larger.
The tree stump came out:
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Baby's ETA is any time now. I was 12 days early with E, and although I know I can't count on a repeat of that goodness, I can still hope. You can bet there will be pictures. 😉


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Avis buying Zipcar in deal worth nearly $500M
NEW YORK — Avis is leaping into the car-sharing service business by buying Zipcar for $491.2 million, aiming to capture a new type of customer and technology that will vastly expand its car rental options.
Car sharing has become a popular alternative to traditional rentals in metropolitan areas and on college campuses, allowing members to get a vehicle for an hour or two for short trips instead of renting a car for a day or using mass transit. The segment has been growing while traditional car rentals have struggled in the current slow-growth economy.
Zipcar, which was founded in 2000, has more than 760,000 members, triple what it had in 2008. It went public in 2011 and 2012 is expected to be its first-ever profitable year. Avis Budget Group Inc. is the third-largest U.S. rental car company, behind Enterprise Rent-a-Car and Hertz Global Holdings Inc.
"I've been somewhat dismissive of car sharing in the past but what I've come to realize is that car sharing, particularly on the scale that Zipcar has achieved and will achieve, is complementary to our traditional business," Avis' Chairman and CEO Ron Nelson said in a conference call after the deal was announced.
Nelson said the acquisition means Avis will now be able to reach younger, more tech-savvy consumers that prefer sharing services.
Zipcar parks cars throughout cities and college campuses, which allows renters to avoid waiting in lines at traditional car rental counters. Some areas provide reserved parking for the cars, which can be located online or through the companies' smartphone applications. That technology was attractive to Avis, which hopes to expand Zipcar's vast technological capabilities to its own business.
The car-sharing companies pay for fuel and insurance, costs not included in standard car rentals. Although the hourly rental options are quicker and cheaper than renting a car by the day, Zipcar and other car-sharing services are generally more expensive for rentals longer than 24 hours.
To join Zipcar, members pay a $25 application fee and $50 a year. Rates run from $7.50 an hour and include gas, insurance and 180 miles a day.
The acquisition will help Avis better compete with Enterprise and Hertz, which have their own smaller car-sharing services. And having access to Avis' fleet of cars will help Zipcar meet high demand on weekends when most people take a trip to the grocery store or run other errands.
Avis estimates it will save about $50 to $70 million a year through combining the two businesses into one.
Avis Budget Group Inc. will pay $12.25 per share, which is a 49 percent premium to Zipcar's closing price on Friday. The stock lost more than half its value in early 2012 year as its results and outlook spooked Wall Street. But late last year, the stock began to recover as the company saw growth in members and revenue. And on Wednesday, the stock soared 48 percent to close at $12.18.
The boards of both companies unanimously approved the buyout. If Zipcar shareholders approve the deal, it's expected to close in the spring.
Avis, which is based in Parsippany, N.J., said it expects certain members of Zipcar management, including Chairman and CEO Scott Griffith and President and Chief Operating Officer Mark Norman, to help run its day-to-day operations.
Avis also maintained its 2012 adjusted earnings forecast Monday of about $2.35 to $2.45 per share on revenue of approximately $7.3 billion. Analysts predict earnings of $2.42 per share on revenue of $7.3 billion.
Avis shares jumped 4.8 percent to close at $20.77, after earlier hitting a 52-week high of $21.10.
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